Terence Cola

Terence Cola Nguema
28th President of Santa Rosa
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 August 1994
Vice President	Geraldo Gran Cebolla
Preceded by	Paul Oppenheimer
President of the National Assembly
In office 20 August 1990 – 14 November 1991
Personal details
Born	Terence Galanza Cola Nguema 24 October 1948 Alhambra, Santa Rosa
Political party	PSSR (1997–)
Other political affiliations	PSD (until 1997)
Spouse	Seble Cola
Children	5
Education	University of Campinas (BA) Law School of Sorocaba (BL, LLD)
Awards	Bernstein Peace Award (1995)

Terence Galanza Cola Nguema (born 24 October 1948) is a Santa Rosan politician and lawyer currently serving as the 28th President of Santa Rosa since 20 August 1994.

Political career

Presidency (1994–)

Cola won the 1994 presidential election with 75.40% of the vote in the second round, defeating incumbent prime minister Antonio Lardesi in a landslide.

Cola was inaugurated in Ciudad Beldad on 20 August 1994.

Cabinet

Prior to forming his cabinet, Cola's Social Democratic Party (PSD) formed a congressional alliance with the Movement to Socialism (MAS) and the Communist Party of Santa Rosa (PCSR), called the Popular Front. The Popular Front was the largest political alliance of leftist parties in the history of Santa Rosa, holding 165 of the 213 seats in the National Assembly and 29 of the 42 seats in the Senate, giving the bloc a super-majority to legislate without opposition.

Leading up to the 1998 election, Cola united the Social Democratic Party and the Movement to Socialism to create the Socialist Party of Santa Rosa. Cola proceeded to win that election with 69.4% of the vote in the first round.

Personal life

Terence Cola met Seble Ybarra at the Law School of Sorocaba and the two married in 1974. The couple have had five children: Damián (b. 1975), Jovita (b. 1978), Lorenzo (b. 1980), Nia (b. 1981), and Lalo (b. 1984 d. 1998).

Awards and honours

Awards

• 1995 – Bernstein Peace Award